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Installing the VMware Management Interface on a Linux Host
The steps below describe an installation of the VMware Management Interface on a Red Hat Linux host from a CD-ROM. If you downloaded the software, the steps are the same except that you start from the directory where you saved the installer file you downloaded, not from the CD. If you are using a different Linux distribution, some commands may be different.
1. In a terminal window, if you haven't done so already, become root so you can carry out the installation.
su -
2. Mount the CD-ROM drive and change to the Linux directory on the CD.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/Linux
3. Copy the tar archive to a directory on your hard drive (for example, to /tmp).
cp VMware-mui-<xxxx>.tar.gz /tmp
(where <xxxx> is a series of numbers representing version and build numbers)
Caution: Make sure the directory to which you plan to untar the tar archive does not contain any files from a previous management interface tar installation.
Change to the directory to which you copied the file.
cd /tmp
Unpack the archive.
tar zxf VMware-mui-<xxxx>.tar.gz
(where <xxxx> is a series of numbers representing version and build numbers)
4. Change to the installation directory.
cd vmware-mui-distrib
5. Run the installation program.
./vmware-install.pl
6. Press Enter to continue.
7. Accept the EULA.
8. Specify the directory where you want to install the management components, the binary files, management interface files, init directories and init scripts. Or accept the default directories.
9. Allow the configuration program vmware-config-mui.pl to run.
10. Specify the number of minutes before a management interface session times out. The default session length is 60 minutes.
11. When you finish, you can:
Log out of the root account.
exit